Lowering barriers to higher education
The cost of college textbooks has risen for decades. Open source is helping to bend the cost curve. Our new film introduces you to the people behind the movement.
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Healthcare Made Human
Five years after appearing in an Open Source Stories film, the team from OpenNotes returns to discuss the state of openness in healthcare.
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Open Source Stories showcases people who dare to create things out in the open for all to share and build upon. These films, articles, talks, and experiences demonstrate how open source changes every type of human endeavor.
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Because We Had To
Sparking creativity with STEM kits
Co.Lab, presented by Open Source Stories, is an education experience that encourages students to collaborate and share ideas using open source principles. Through both workshops and do-it-yourself STEM kits—all of which were inspired by an Open Source Stories film, article, or talk—students work together as they build everything from circuit boards to interactive robots from scratch.
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The story of how a group of roboticists turned one piece of open source software into a global phenomenon.
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Open Source Stories, an original series from Red Hat, celebrates the innovators who bring the power of open source to everything people do.
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